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The Big Bang banged, and for some reason we’re here. And that’s astonishing. And that we can understand that, that’s the most astonishing.

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Evolution is a theory, and it’s a theory that you can test. We’ve tested evolution in many ways. You can’t present good evidence that says evolution is not a fact.
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Evolution Facts Tests Way
If you just take a single human and put him or her in the forest he or she might not do very well without some sort of education which he got or she got from some tribe.
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Forests might Tribes
Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science, in all of biology. The key to our being here now is time, 4.54 billion (Earth) years of time.
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Book Evolution Ideas Years
The natural world is a package deal; you don’t get to select which facts you like and which you don’t.
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Facts Natural World
Recommending or insisting on abstinence has been completely ineffective.
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Abstinence Insisting Recommending
The philosophy of science is inherent in the process. This is to say, you think critically, you draw a conclusion based on evidence, but we all pursue discovery based on our observations. That’s where science starts.
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Discovery Philosophy Thinking
Without an end to the burning of fossil fuels, coal especially, most of us will live shorter lives. I’m hopeful, but very, very concerned.
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Burning Coal Hopeful
We are special in the sense that we can know our place in the cosmos. We can know our place in space. We are at least one of the cosmos’s ways of knowing itself. That fills me with reverence and joy.
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Knowing People Space
There’s nothing I believe in more strongly than getting young people interested in science and engineering, for a better tomorrow, for all humankind.
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Believe Engineering People
Our goal in science is to discover universal laws of nature. That pursuit fills me with wonder.
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Goal Law Pursuit Wonder
The future of commerce is going to be all electronic. The gold standard was a fine idea, but electronic changes of funds and credits will be the future.
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Commercial Credit Electrical Future Gold Ideas
Teaching creationism in science class as an alternative to evolution is inappropriate.
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Alternatives Class Teaching
People get a lot out of being religious. They have strong senses of community and mutual support. So, what’s not to love [there]?
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Mutual Religious Strong Support
But as the cerebellum degrades with age, so does the quality of memories. The memories are there, but they’re not as good.
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Age Certain Memories Quality
If we raise a generation of students who dont believe in the process of science, who think everything that weve come to know about nature and the universe can be dismissed by a few sentences translated into English from some ancient text, youre not going to continue to innovate.
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Believe Generations Thinking
Some of the most wonderful aspects and consequences of evolution have been discovered only recently.
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Discovery Medicine Views

The Big Bang banged, and for some reason we’re here. And that’s astonishing. And that we can understand that, that’s the most astonishing.

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The Big Bang banged, and for some reason we’re here. And that’s astonishing. And that we can understand that, that’s the most astonishing.

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